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Inter-regional spillovers in Fukuoka Prefecture : using VAR model

Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2011 - Draft version

This paper examines the question of inter-regional spillovers in Fukuoka Prefecture. Fukuoka Prefecture is located on the west side of Japan, and is near the Korean peninsula. There are two government-designated major cities in Fukuoka Prefecture. One is Fukuoka City, which is the central city...

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A quantitatively effectiveness of hybrid sewerage systems allowing rainwater flow into sewage facilities for disaster prevention of inland flooding

Shirayanagi, Hiroaki; Kitamura, Yukisada - 2015

In Japan, recent low birthrate and aging population have progressively led to a crisis for infrastructure. In particular, the quantity of drainage from homes and factories is remarkably decreasing, along with the decline of economic activity resulting from the overseas move of Japanese...

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Infrastructure gap in South Asia : inequality of access to infrastructure services

Biller, Dan; Andrés, Luis; Dappe, Matías Herrera - 2014

The South Asia region is home to the largest pool of individuals living under the poverty line, coupled with a fast … Asia region's rates of access to infrastructure (sanitation, electricity, telecom, and transport) are closer to those of … Sub-Saharan Africa, the one exception being water, where the South Asia region is comparable to East Asia and the pacific …

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The regional effects of macroeconomic shocks in China

Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2015

The extent and persistence of the inequality of regional output is an important policy issue in China and its sources have been the subject of considerable empirical research. Yet we have relatively little empirical knowledge of the effects on the regional distribution of output of shocks to...

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Future prediction of the prefectural economy in Japan : using a stochastic model

Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2012 - Draft version

This study develops an easy forecasting model using prefectural data in Japan. The Markov chain known as a stochastic model corresponds to the vector auto-regressive (VAR) model of the first order. If the transition probability matrix can be appropriately estimated, the forecasting model using...

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Socioeconomic disadvantage and politics in the geographical allocation of public resources : evidence from Turkey's fixed capital investments

Luca, Davide - 2013 - Draft version for ERSA 2013 Annual Conference

Following the political economics literature documenting how public resources are likely to be geographically distributed along equity and efficiency as well as political considerations, this article is aimed at exploring to what extent, and through which channels, politics play a role in...

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Intra-regional disparity and municipal merger : case study in Fukuoka Prefecture

Sakamoto, Hiroshi - 2013 - Tentative version for ERSA 2013

This study examines intra-regional disparity and municipal merger in Fukuoka Prefecture. Fukuoka Prefecture (Fukuoka-ken) is a prefecture of Japan located on Kyushu Island. It faces the sea on three sides, bordering on Saga, Oita, and Kumamoto prefectures and facing Yamaguchi Prefecture across...

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Do electoral politics and partisan articulations matter for regional economic development? : evidence from Turkey's provinces : Young Scientists Session, 54th European Regional Sci...

Luca, Davide - 2014

The importance of political local coalitions in shaping local governance structures conducive to economic growth has been a subject of research for numerous years, both in rich economies as well as in emerging countries. In spite of such amount of research, little attention has yet been paid to...

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Creative economy policy in developing countries : the case of Indonesia : ERSA 54th Congress, Regional development & globalisation: best practices, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 26-29...

Fahmi, Fikri Zul - 2014

This paper elaborates on how the global discourse on creative economy is interpreted in developing countries. We accomplish this by examining how the discourse has been institutionalized in several Indonesian cities. As an effect of decentralization, localities attempt to become a winner among...

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Municipal sizes and municipal restructuring in Japan

Nakagawa, Kuninori - 2014

In this article, we quantitatively analyze changes in the size distribution of municipal jurisdictions in Japan by using their rank-size distribution to capture the change. In Japan, the central government sometimes enacts large-scale municipal mergers, aimed at the creating of municipalities of...

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